Blog for news and updates about the Key West Library's One Island One Book program. In 2014 we're reading "Killing Mister Watson" by Peter Matthiessen.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Now it's your turn

We read the book, we toured the exhibit at the Custom House, we've heard from the people doing the rail-to-trail conversion, our pre-eminent local historian -- and the author himself.
Now it's your turn. This week, the Library's Book Bites Book Club holds three meetings to discuss Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford.
The first is at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Library Conference Room.
The second is at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Florida Keys Community College Library. The Library is in Building A, 5901 College Road -- perfect for folks who don't want to make the drive into Old Town and search for parking.
The final event in this year's One Island One Book is Thursday, March 8, at 4:30 p.m., back at the Library.
All Book Bites meetings are open to everyone -- you don't need to be a Monroe County Library patron to attend. Thanks to everyone for participating this year and please don't hesitate to ask questions if you have any -- stop by the Library, give us a call at 305-292-3595 or email neihouse-kris@monroecounty-fl.gov.

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Schedule of Events

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 5 p.m.: Book Bites Book Club meets at the Library to discuss Killing Mister Watson

Thursday, Feb. 27, 9:30 a.m.: Historian Tom Hambright presents the history behind the Edgar Watson story in a Cafe Con Libros/One Island One Book special program.

Want to read more? All these books are in the Library's collection.

Lost Man's River by Peter Matthiessen -- the second book in Matthiessen's Watson trilogy

Bone By Bone by Peter Matthiessen -- the third book in the Watson trilogy

Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen -- The single-volume reworking of the Watson trilogy, winner of the 2009 National Book Award for fiction

Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's first Martyr to Environmentalism by Stuart McIver -- The tale of an Audubon game warden -- and Key Wester -- who was killed by plume hunters on Cape Sable

They All Called it Tropical: True Tales of the Romantic Everglades, Cape Sable and the Florida Keys by Charles Brookfield -- History of early South Florida settlers

The Swamp by Michael Grunwald -- Excellent history of South Florida, specifically of the Everglades and various attempts to first develop and then preserve the area.

The Everglades: River of Grass by Marjory Stoneman Douglas -- The classic account that helped make the case for preserving the Everglades